How To Install rust-gdb on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rust-gdb on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is rust-gdb
rust-gdb is:
Rust is a curly-brace, block-structured expression language. It visually resembles the C language family, but differs significantly in syntactic and semantic details. Its design is oriented toward concerns of “programming in the large”, that is, of creating and maintaining boundaries - both abstract and operational - that preserve large-system integrity, availability and concurrency.
It supports a mixture of imperative procedural, concurrent actor, object-oriented and pure functional styles. Rust also supports generic programming and meta-programming, in both static and dynamic styles.
This package contains pretty printers and a wrapper script for invoking gdb on rust binaries.
There are three methods to install rust-gdb on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install rust-gdb Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install rust-gdb using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install rust-gdb
Install rust-gdb Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install rust-gdb using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install rust-gdb
Install rust-gdb Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install rust-gdb using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install rust-gdb
How To Uninstall rust-gdb on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the rust-gdb package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove rust-gdb
Uninstall rust-gdb And Its Dependencies
To uninstall rust-gdb and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove rust-gdb
Remove rust-gdb Configurations and Data
To remove rust-gdb configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge rust-gdb
Remove rust-gdb configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove rust-gdb configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge rust-gdb
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rust-gdb package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
